Marvin Schimscheiner

Marvin Schimscheiner (1902-) was an Imperial German Army private who served on the Western Front of World War I. At the age of 16, he was sent to the 2nd Company under Lieutenant Stanislaus Katzinsky, and Katzinsky warned Schimscheiner not to use a knife in combat (both the Germans and French had agreed not to use knives), instead advising him to use a spade to decapitate French soldiers at close quarters.